Pat Gillick Quotes
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now!
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The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
